Author: Thomas Wilkins, University of Sydney Recent comments made by Australian officials about Taiwan over the past few weeks are less statecraft and more reminiscent of a fictional account of the leadup to a Third World War. During an ANZAC…
Authors: Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, ECIPE and Shada Islam, College of Europe Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi cancelled most of his full-packed summit agenda with other world leaders to tend to the devastating COVID-19 crisis at home. Nonetheless, the EU–India summit in…
Author: Editorial Board, ANU Family planning has for decades been one of China’s most controversial social policies. Mao Zedong was a strong advocate for population growth, believing it to be a source of strength for the fledgling People’s Republic. From…
Author: Jeremy Youde, University of Minnesota Duluth India is in the grips of a massive COVID-19 outbreak, with the total number of cases now numbering more than 24 million sick and more than 250,000 deaths (though the number of COVID-19…
Author: Ka Zeng, University of Arkansas In the past couple of decades multinational corporations have invested heavily in China to cut production costs and capitalise on the rapidly growing domestic market. In the process, they turned the country into the…
Author: Guy Burton, Brussels School of Governance China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi embarked on a six-country tour of the Middle East at the end of March 2021. On the eve of his departure, Wang announced China’s five-point plan for the…
Author: Gary Clyde Hufbauer, PIIE US President Joe Biden’s next big legislative push is an infrastructure bill that will top US$2 trillion. The President has broadly defined ‘infrastructure’ to include schools, housing for the elderly and much else besides the…
